Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough
stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught,
sketch.]
Figure; outline; show. [Obs.]
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Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Turk.]
Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]
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Bosh \Bosh\, n.; pl. Boshes. [Cf. G. b["o]schung a slope.]
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1. One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast
furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of
the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
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2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes
inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
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3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and
ingots are cooled.
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bosh
n : pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney,
bilgewater, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle,
tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
WordNet (r) 2.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "bosh":
balderdash, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah,
blatherskite, bop, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap,
eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup,
hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery,
jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot,
rubbish, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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